LETTERS

Letters to the editor from the Wicked Local Waltham

As reported in last week’s Waltham News Tribune (“More time needed for bridge project,” 3/19), the Beaver Street Bridge culvert project is grossly behind schedule and the city’s best guesstimate for a completion date of two or three weeks is highly unlikely to be met due to spring snowmelt and anticipated high water levels. To add insult to injury, the city created a snow farm at the Fernald, which will melt and flow directly to the Beaver Street culvert. Project...

This Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, when many Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert before launching his ministry.